Subj:.....Missing
Numbers (S600)
From the book
"Mathematical Puzzles of Sam Loyd"
Edited by Martin Gardner
From: Dover Publications in 1959
Can you restore the
missing digits?
The archeologist is
examining a completed problem in
long division, engraved
on a sandstone boulder. Due
to weathering of
the rock, most of the figures are no
longer legible.
Fortunately, the eight legible digits
provide enough information
to enable you to supple the
missing figures.
It really looks as
if there should be scores of correct
answers, yet so far
as I am aware, only one satisfactory
restoration of the
problem has been suggested. |